Hi, On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:55:52AM +0100, Dave Page wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 07:34:17PM +0200, Pierre Machard wrote: > > > > It would be useful for Debian users if man pages for software in the > > > Debian archives were available through the website. > > > Here they are for unstable. > > > http://people.debian.org/~pmachard/l10n/material/man/ > > That's cool, but it's nowhere near complete. I was thinking of something > which covers every package in Debian, so I could read (say) man dhclient > without having it installed. Indeed. My page is intended to find material for translators. > > Also, somewhere linked to from the main Debian site (in the > Documentation section would make sense) would be useful. It's not a simple think. The main reason for that, is that source packages includes the source of manpages. So you need to work on binary-package. However, as you probably know, some packages conflicts, other divert, that is to say, 2 packages provide the same feature, and provide manpages. Example for lpr manpages exists in cpusys-bsd and lpr > Not trying to diss what you've done, just trying to suggest something > which would be very helpful to Debian users. Unfortunately, I belive that this bug cannt be fixed trivialy. I think I will a a tag wontfix for now. Until someone provide a manner to implement it. Cheers, -- Pierre Machard <pmachard@debian.org> http://debian.org GPG: 1024D/23706F87 : B906 A53F 84E0 49B6 6CF7 82C2 B3A0 2D66 2370 6F87
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